"Autonomy is a big danger, and it will have to be fought," said Nati Malchi, owner of a dry-cleaning shop.

Signs, like the one announcing the imminent closing of a dry-cleaning shop on West 42nd Street, can be read as existential meditations on time.

The air is becoming as fetid and damp as a dry-cleaning shop.

In Scotland there is currently an arrangement for all dry-cleaning shops to be inspected by the local authorities.

And he runs his business out of an office above a dry-cleaning shop on Edgeware Road, the Marble Arch end.

Her parents ran a dry-cleaning shop, but her father died of cancer when Ms. Harwayne was 11.

"A change of blood always is better," said Alexander Litvinoff, 53, who owns a dry-cleaning shop in town.

Everyone standing in the doorways of the delicatessens and dry-cleaning shops and restaurants seemed to be smiling.

Minerva's, a dry-cleaning shop on the block, did not care which.

J.C. opens a dry-cleaning shop; Phil invests in a chemical plant.